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doesnt get much better then this...

this summer i signed up for 256k dsl..they told me i would get a little more, but not much..for a few months i was doing roughly 420k, and recently it was down for a day..and now i get closer to 560k average..cant beat that, can you? imean bandwidth wise you could, but i was told i would get less then half of what i actually get. (though i think you can all figure it out, by 560k imean roughly 70KB/s..though its between 68 and 72 usually)

Re:doesnt get much better then this...

I don&#039;t think cable companies operate any way except bitchy. How strange it is that a type of corporation that&#039;s built on the money of its subscribers should give a rat&#039;s ass about the very people it&#039;s built upon. However, they don&#039;t. They seem to be set up in checkerboard formation across North America, each one having its own private little monopoly in the area. I just got put through the process. I got high speed, and was getting about 300 k/s regularly. Three days later, I get half a K on a good day. For a few days I was averaging 40 bytes/sec. I call up their tech support, and all I get is that there seems to be a problem in the area, and that they&#039;re investigating. I call four more times in the next two weeks, and all I get is that the company has acknowledged that there exists a problem in the area. Finally, after three weeks of virtual inactivity, they send a repair guy. According to the guy, they had too many modems operating on the same frequency in the area. He was there for THREE MINUTES, and I was well on my way, sailing at 250K/s again. HOW does it take THREE WEEKS to perform THREE MINUTES of work? The only reason I&#039;m not switching is because the only other high speed provider in the area is DSL, and they cap your downloads at 10 Gigs / month. Given my internet consumption, that probably wouldn&#039;t do for me, let alone my four roommates.

Re:doesnt get much better then this...

I had dsl before this, that was a f*cking nightmare! They promised 640kb/s but what I got was 640 divided by 8. On a good day I could d/l at about 12 kb/s. Tech support was nonexistent.
The cable company has been a dream. I called them at 9am and by 1pm the Service Rep was at the door with a modem. Service has been flawless and it&#039;s half the price of dsl.

Re:doesnt get much better then this...

[quote author=martin link=board=14;threadid=8026;start=0#msg73204 date=1067473495]
I had dsl before this, that was a f*cking nightmare! They promised 640kb/s but what I got was 640 divided by 8. On a good day I could d/l at about 12 kb/s. Tech support was nonexistent.
The cable company has been a dream. I called them at 9am and by 1pm the Service Rep was at the door with a modem. Service has been flawless and it&#039;s half the price of dsl.
[/quote]

dude, when they tell you kb/s they mean kilo-bits a second. they kept their promise, you just didnt catch it...because there is 8 bits in a byte

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[quote author=Terg link=board=14;threadid=8026;start=0#msg73205 date=1067476399]
[quote author=martin link=board=14;threadid=8026;start=0#msg73204 date=1067473495]
I had dsl before this, that was a f*cking nightmare! They promised 640kb/s but what I got was 640 divided by 8. On a good day I could d/l at about 12 kb/s. Tech support was nonexistent.
The cable company has been a dream. I called them at 9am and by 1pm the Service Rep was at the door with a modem. Service has been flawless and it&#039;s half the price of dsl.
[/quote]

dude, when they tell you kb/s they mean kilo-bits a second. they kept their promise, you just didnt catch it...because there is 8 bits in a byte
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After 2 hours on hold waiting for tech support I was informed about the bit&#039;s/bytes.